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Deanna Oye & Brad Parker, piano
January 21 | 12:15 p.m. | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

In the first Music at Noon concert of 2025, pianists Deanna Oye and Brad Parker are happy to be performing a new program of 4-handed music, which includes a charming duet sonata by Mozart, an arrangement of movements from Beethoven's dramatic 5th Symphony, and excerpts from Bizet's popular opera, "Carmen".

Deanna Oye is Associate Professor and Studio Coordinator in the Department of Music where she teaches Studio Piano and directs the U of L Collaborative Ensemble, and also teaches with the University of Lethbridge Conservatory of Music. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Dr. Jean Barr, and has given solo and collaborative performances throughout Canada, the U.S., Scotland, Germany, and Japan, with broadcasts on CBC Radio Two and National Public Radio in the U.S. Deanna is active as an adjudicator, master class clinician and is frequently invited to give career talks to aspiring musicians. She is also passionate about helping her students make connections between music and their other passions and mentoring them to find their own unique niche in the music world.

Brad Parker has performed in Canada, the US, France, Italy, and Haiti. Recent performances include solo recitals in Alberta, South Carolina and California, collaborative performances with FOURtitude Piano Ensemble, Pedro Diaz, Gabriel Goni, and Nancy Stagnitta as well as concertos with the Lethbridge and Charleston Symphonies.

Dr. Parker is on the music faculty at the University of Lethbridge, and previously taught at Charleston Southern University and Erskine College in South Carolina.  His passion for musical instruction led him to volunteer for several summers at the North Haiti Music Camp, on the campus of the Christian University of North Haiti.

Brad completed a Masters and DMA in Piano Performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with further graduate studies at the Paris Conservatory.  He studied at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario where he earned a Bachelor of Music with Distinction.  His principal teachers include Rebecca Penneys, Dr. Heather Dawn Taves, and Jean Koerner.